[ sesame street : at night, you breathe ]

[takenaka]

at night, you breathe
fandom sesame street
pairing bert/ernie
style drabble
length 148
i love silv more than i love myself


The way Ernie breathe next to him was beginning to annoy Bert.

It was always Ernie who kept him up at night, even if it wasn’t in words and songs and Bert Bert Bert but with his breathing.

Maybe he preferred that: the words and the songs and the Bert Bert Bert because it was noisy enough to drown out the breathing and Bert’s thoughts that came with it.

He knew that he wasn’t being fair. Ernie had always told him everything while he didn’t. Ernie honestly called him his friend. Bert dishonestly kept what he thought of Ernie to himself.

It was love, he realised, even without the words and the songs and saying Ernie’s name over and over again. It was love, he knew, though he didn’t want it to be.

Because they would always just be friends.

He sighed and frowned.

Ernie breathed and smiled.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

imagine bert and ernie lying in their beds, facing opposite sides of the room, bert thinking about ernie while knowing he's awake because he can just tell, ernie's breathing is always a certain way when he's asleep, and he thinks it's a little strange that ernie isn't being very talkative tonight even though he's still up

and ernie is awake because he can't stop thinking about what he should do about bert, feeling guilty and like a piece of shit for knowing bert's secret but being too scared to do anything about it. and it makes him selfish, too, that it might be better for bert if he were to end it now but not wanting to lose his best friend, and he knows bert is still awake because he also knows how bert sounds when he's asleep... and he wonders if bert is thinking about him